CVE-2020-13695

HIGH
7.2
CVSS Score
Published: June 1, 2020 at 05:45 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:53 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorQuickbox

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Severity
HIGH7.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

In QuickBox Community Edition through 2.5.5 and Pro Edition through 2.1.8, the local www-data user has sudo privileges to execute grep as root without a password, which allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information via a grep of a /root/*.db or /etc/shadow file.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 2.1.8v ≤ 2.5.5

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://s1gh.sh/cve-2020-13448-quickbox-authenticated-rce/

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-269CWE-306

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